ATCi’s Hong Kong Backhaul Network Announces Live Mobile Video Streaming Service for iPhone and BlackBerry

The Service Complements ATCi’s IP Video Aggregation, GSM Backhaul and adds Direct Live Streaming of Concerts, News, Sports, Corporate Communications and Other Video Based Content to Smartphones

BANGKOK, March 9 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Asia Backhaul Conference -- ATCi, a leading service provider of live and on-demand video, satellite, mobile GSM backhaul, corporate web communications and content management applications, today announced the official launch of its high quality, live mobile video streaming service enabled for iPhone and BlackBerry users through its MeshTV technology and delivery service.

The new mobile video streaming service was developed partnered with Envivio, a leading Multi-screen provider of next generation encoding platforms. The service is capable of enabling adaptive and segmented streaming to popular mobile devices to a multiplicity of Content Delivery Networks.

ATCi’s Mesh TV service was developed to enable delivery to multiple screens (cable, broadcast, internet or mobile) from the same ingest point. The service enables subscribers to receive live and/or on-demand mobile wireless-based video including sports, news, concerts and other live entertainment on their mobile "smartphones" including Blackberries and iPhones via IP satellite and or IP terrestrial circuits. ATCi will offer the service throughout Asia through its newly announced Hong Kong teleport facility which is collocated with Solana, a leading edge gateway of fiber/satellite access in Asia and unique unparalleled delivery throughout China.

Gary Hatch, CEO of ATCi commented at the Asia Backhaul conference, "The Mesh TV multi-screen delivery technology brings the best-of-breed technologies to the mobile market, and we are thrilled to be working to provide winning business models to our media and mobile customers," Hatch concluded.